Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Study of Virgin Child. Verso: Study of a Cat and Other Studies
ca. 1508-1512
maximum dimensions: 2 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches (74 x 63 mm), cut to an irregular shape
Pen and brown ink over red chalk; verso: pen and brown ink over black chalk.
II, 62
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and dark brown ink in lower left verso, "amaro".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 36.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 62.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 279, D55-56, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 62.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 279, D55-56, repr.
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